Trouble Creating Padded Images for iMovie

i am having trouble creating "padded" images to add to iMovie 09.  I followed the directions here (https://discussions.apple.com/message/10699725?messageID=10699725#10699725?messa geID=10699725) which recommend the following:
Set up an Automator Workflow to
1. Ask for Photos (You must select one or more photos and hit Select - you can make this easier by putting them in an album beforehand)
2. Copy Finder Items (give it a folder to copy to- so you can find them easily)
3. Pad Images. (put a check mark in "scale image before padding" and set for dimensions of your project.
Hit Run and a dialog box will come up asking you to select photos. When you are finished, press SELECT and the Automator script will keep running.
However, each time I run the script I get the following error: The action "Pad Images" was not supplied with the required data."
My files are .jpg and I am running OS X.  Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong?

If you want a quick response it might make sense to try and contact user TessB directly. I say that only as that person was the one that proposed the Automater Workflow workaround, and that's not exactly something here can answer (Maybe the folks in another forum related to Autmator might be able to help). Unfortunately some solutions aren't as generic or easy to use for everyone as they are for the person who has written them up. I call it the "Works for Me" problem.

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